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No..465,289. V Patented Dec. 15, 1891..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARK M. PLATT, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE PATENT BUTTONCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTH-COVERED TACK-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,289, dated December15, 1891.

Application filed geptember 29, 1390. Serial N0. 366,519. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARK M. PLATT, of Vaterbury, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inCloth-Covered Tacks or Rivets; and I do hereby declare the'following,when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked.

thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a perspective view of a tack or rivet such as is used incarrying out my invent-ion. Fig. 2 is a View thereof in side elevationafter it has been provided with an inner cap or false head, whichis-shown in section. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the assemblance ofthe tack or rivet after its provision with an inner cap or false headwith a cloth-faced outer cap preparatory to securing the latter thereto;and Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the completed article, the innercap or false head. and cloth-faced cap being shown in section.

My invention relates to an improvementin cloth-covered tacks or rivetshaving slender shanks and bulky heads, the object being to produce acheap, durable, and elegant article of the character described, on thebasis of a tack or rivet having a slender shank and a small head.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the combination, with atack or rivet having a slender shank and a small head, of a false headconsisting of a heavy cup-shaped circular inner cap applied to thetack-head, than which it is much larger in diameter, and having itsflange pinched downupon the inner face thereof and adapted to extend in=ward close to the base of the shank, whereby it is held against lateraldisplacement, and a lighter cup-shaped circular outer cap applied overthe inner cap or false head, having its flange pinched down upon theflange thereof and having its outer face covered with a piece of fabric,the edges of which are turned inward over the edges of the outer cap andpinched between the same and the flange of the inner cap or false head.

The tack or rivet herein shown has a slender shank A and a small head B,and is made after the usual method of upsetting one end of a shortlength of stock, practically corresponding in transverse section to thesize of the shank in the finished article. Under this method if theshank be slender the head must be small, as there is not metal enoughavailable to make it large. To supply this deficiency I provide the headB with a false head C, greatly increasing its virtual size, andconsisting of a cup-shaped circular heavy sheetmetal cap much larger indiameter than the tack-head and having its flange pinched down upon theinner face thereof and constructed to extend inward. close to the baseof the shank, whereby the said false head or cap is held against lateraldisplacement. This false head or inner cap is inclosed by a cup-shapedcircular light sheet-metal cap D, the flange whereof is pinched downupon it, the said cap C having a disk E of fabric'applied to its outerface and turned inward over its edge, so that it is pinched between thesame and the flange of the false head or inner cap, as shown by Fig. 4of the drawings.

The cloth-covered tack or rivet thus produced combines the advantages ofa slender shank and a bulky head, and is cheap, durable, and elegant. Itmay be used either as a tack, in which case it will be simply driven andretained in place by friction, or asa rivet, in which case the pointedend will be upset.

I am aware that it is not new to build up and enlarge the head of a tackand then cover it with fabric, and therefore do not claim suchconstruction, broadly.

Having fully described my invention, What I do claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination, with a tack or rivethavinga slender shank and a small head, of a false head consisting of aheavy cup-shaped circular inner cap applied to the tack-head, than whichit is much larger in diameter, and having its flange pinched down uponthe inner face thereof and adapted to extend inward close to the. baseof the shank, whereby it is held against lateral displacement, and alighter cup-shaped circular outer cap applied over the inner cap orfalse head, having its flange pinched down upon the flange thereof andhaving its outer face covered with a piece of fabric, the edges of whichare turned inward over the edges of the outer cap and pinched betweenthe same and the flange of the inner cap or false head, substantially asdescribed.

In witness whereof Ihave signed this specifieation in the presence oftwo subscribing IO witnesses.

CLARK M. PLATT.

Witnesses: 1 L. A. PLATT,

' W. J. WARRIOK.

